Stock recording system



April 8, 1952 A. ADLER sTocx RECORDING SYSTEM 2 SHEETS- SHEET 1 Filed May 13, 1950 ggf.

f INVENTOR. /4Lf/l0nj 40261? AA/A247 April 8, 1952 A` ADLER STOCK RECORDING SYSTEM 2 SHEETS-*SHEET 2 Filed May 13, 1950 Patented pr. 8, 1952 UNITED sTATEs PATENT oFFIcE STOCK RECORDING SYSTEM Alphons Adler, New York, N. Y. Application May 13, 195o, v'serial No. 161,869

1 The present invention relates to a stock recording system which permits of indication of the exact quantity of stock on hand of a plurality of items There are known stock recording systems which are designed for particular fields and are rather of complicated nature or which have loopholes thereby lacking complete control'of Vthe stock on hand.

It is.' therefore, one object of the present invention, to provide a stockrecording system which allows complete control of the stockon hand by recordingbuying and selling of stock.

It is another object of the present invention to provide an indicating strip disclosing the exact number of units in stock. v

It is still another object of the present invention to provide a stock card of each item to which strips indicating the number of units available arel applied.

It is yet another object of the present invention to transform from an order slip strips applied thereto to the corresponding stock card. It is also an object of the present inventionv to provide a slide supporting the vrespective'stock and moving the order blank to a. plurality of succeeding positions in whichthe order blank overlies the corresponding stock card.

With these and other objects in view, which will become apparent in the following detailed description, the present invention will be clearly 2 Claims. (Cl. 411-195) understood in connection with the accompanying.

drawings'in which:

Fig. 1 is a plan view of the slide carrying the order blank and the stock cards. respectively;

Fig. 2 is a section along the lines 2-2'of Fig. 1; v

Fig. 3 is a section along the lines 3-3 of Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a double strip carrying numbers and the item indication;

Fig. 5 is another embodiment of the strip shown .in Fig. 4; Fig. 6 is a housing for receiving the strip shown in Fig. 4; v v

Fig. 7 is a perspective exploded view disclosing the relative arrangement of the sliding frame,

theorder blank, and the stock card;-

the item number.

Referring now to the drawings, the stock recording system is essentially a method of transforming a label which may be torn off from a strip containing a plurality of labels by means of an order blank to the particular stock card set up for the item. Thus no writing or transcripting takes place and thereby a source for Fig. 8 is lthe packed -up merchandise carrying errors in taking down the number of units which has been removed of a particularitem or errors in the item number are completely eliminated. The feature of eliminating of any writing regarding the number of units removed and of the itemy number amounts to an essential advantage over known methods. l

At first astrip ofvlabels I, as shown in Fig. 4,v

is prepared, which strip I is folded over longitudinally and the top portion 2 is disposed over the bottom portion 3. The top portion 2 has a perforation line 4 which permitsseasy separation of the top portion 2 from the bottomportion 3.A Each one of the portions consists of a plurality of labels and the labels 5 of the bottom portion 3 carry a successive number on the left side and the item number for instance 1-4 (Fig. 4) on its right side.V Each one of the labels 5 is separated by a perforation line E from its adjacent label, and thus makes the removal of each of the labelsV 5 easy. The top portion 2 likewise consists of a plurality of labels 'I which carry merely the item number, as 1-4', and each label 1 is separated by a perforation line 8.- i Upon tearingoff the top portion 2, each label 'l is torn off and attached to the item (Fig. 8),.

The bottom portion 3 which has a perforation line 4, also adjacent its left margin, is inserted into a container 9 in such manner that the end car-l inusual manner and has preferably the followingcolumns: In the rst column the successive number by example 1 to 10 is provided to indicate the number of items ordered. In the second column the stock number, as 1-4 of the item purchased, is inserted. In the-third column the quantity of leach item bought'is given. EitherV the original order blank or preferably a copy thereof is equipped Vwith a window Il which represents a column containing the item, which has been ordered. written out and the window may be opened for a purpose to be described later. The next column shows thelocation' number of the stock and the last column the order number as for instance 778.

If now for instance three units for a certain item are removed from stock to ll the order, three labels are removed from the container 9 and the one carrying the lowest number is pasted to the order blank with its left margin, the length of the label being identical with the width of the window. The label bearing the lowest of the successive numbers is separated from the two labels bearing higher numbers and the latter either destroyed or better inserted into a locked box for later control if required. The mentioned order number in the last column of the order blank is perforated and separable therefrom, as indicated in Fig. '1 by perforation line. In addition, perforation lines are provided be tween each pair of adjacent order number. labels.

If a second item appears on the order blank I0, the desired units of this second itemareremoved from the stock and the corresponding number of labels are again removed from the coordinated container No. 9 and the one carrying the lowest number is pasted just with its left margin:

to the following line in the order blank. If more orders appear in the order blank, the same procedure is continued and in Fig. 7 the order blanki ID shows 4 different items having stock numbers 1 4, 17, 1 5, and 1 3.

In order to record the item and the number thereof, a sliding device I2 is provided which device may be manually or electrically operated in such manner that a slide moves along thev device from one predetermined-position to the next upon closing a circuit.

As shown in Figs. I to'- 3, the manually operated sliding device in its simplest form comprises a board I3, whichl has a longitudinal slot I4 in which a member I5 slides in longitudinal direction.

The member I5 is equipped with a handle I6 and has two longitudinally spaced pins I1 which are adapted to receive a frame I8. The latter carries a back support I9 which is hinged thereto. The support I8 has two windows 20, 2|l and the order blank I is inserted into the-frame I8 on top of the back support I9. The board I3 has a plurality of crosswise disposed bars 22 which arelongitudinally spaced'apart. The bars 22 have cutouts 23 andoutout of each bar 22 is lowered for one line compared with that oftheA previous bar. Further the cutouts are numbered consecutively starting with'l on the first bar and so forth to the last bar.

The bars 22 are adapted to receive a stock card 24 which in the rst column carries-the-date, in the second column the location of theVVV goods in stock, in the third column thequantity and2 thev stock number, then the next column contains the manufacturers number and the last column the price.

The stock cards 24 of the different items are positioned in the board I3. in suchmanner that the rst empty line thereon is set aligned withl the slot having index 1, the next card issetwith thev'rst empty line=with the index 2 andI so forth, by example, if fiveitems are on theorde'r the fifth stock card has'th'e-empty line aligned-with the cutout having: index (see Fig. 1)

Theframe is moved at rst to the first-posi-r tion. and the labelsrof the first item on. the order blank are torn oi and, since on its back an adhesive is applied, then pressed down on the empty line of the rst stock card 24 through the windows 2D and 2| of the frame. Then the frame I8 is moved sidewardly to the second station where the second labels on the order blank are torn off and in the same manner pasted or otherwise attached to the second stock card, and that is repeated until all labels. by example, all five labels of the order blank are transferred to the respective stock cards.

In the same manner as the stock number is pressed down and attached to the stock card 24 through the window 20 of the frame I8, the order number appearing in the last column of the order blank is torn off and attached likewiseto stock card 24.

The frame I8 may be equipped with a dating stamp provided for each line so that upon pressing down the date stamp of the corresponding lineon the stock card 24. the date is stamped in the first column thereof.

The frame has been disclosed sliding over the stationary board. It is, however, also possible to keepv the frame stationary in front of the worker and move the board relative thereto.

While I have disclosed one embodiment of the present invention it isv to be understood that this embodiment is given by example only and not in a limiting sense. the scope of the invention being determinedby'the objects. and the claims.

Iclaim;

l. Ina stockrecordirrgisystem a board, a frame longitudinally slidable along the board to a plu'- rality of stations, said frame having a back portion hinged thereto, said frame. and said back portion having each at least one window aligned to each other, an order blank adapted to be inserted into the frame. on top of its back portion, a. number of stations disposed longitudinally along the board.. and a stock card set in each of said stationsin such manner that the empty line. of saidstock card appears opposite a marker, provided in. each station, the markers ofv eachi pair of adjacent stations are oney line apart in order tov setv the' next empty line of thev stock card inthe followingl station one line below the nextempty'lineof' the stock card in the prior station, a. plurality of stock number labels secured tothe order blank adjacent to its openV window` andeach of saidv labels being at'- tached*` to the correspondingv stock card in the respective stations of the board..

2. The-system., as set forth inA claim 1, which includes means for moving said frame relative to said board intothe respective. stations thereof.

ALPHONS ADLER.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in. the le of this patent:-

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 2,037,192 Booth Apr 14, 1936 2,096,153 Weiss Oct. 19, 1937 2,511,370 Pfeiffer June'131950 

